Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the amount of alcohol you are addicted, I'm sorry, craving,

this video is for you.

Now, there's many reasons why people drink alcohol, reduce stress, maybe for health reasons, which I did a video on that.

There is zero health benefit to drinking alcohol. Now, in the liver, you have a couple

different enzymes that break down alcohol. Now, the first one takes ethanol and turns it into

a toxic material called acetylaldehyde, which is the

chemical that causes damage to your cells. It's a chemical that gives you a hangover that makes you feel

kind of funky. And then there are other enzymes to break it down further into acetic acid,

which is actually vinegar. So in your body, the liver turns alcohol into vinegar,

which is interesting. And vinegar is non-toxic for your liver. So there's a natural remedy

that has virtually no sign effects that can help reduce or prevent the consumption of alcohol.

It's very studied with significant results.

It's been around since at least 600 AD,

which was used in Chinese medicine,

but the effect on alcohol to the liver is not good.

It depletes your vitamin B1,

which gives you a whole series of additional side effects.

It can increase your risk for getting cancer. It increases fat on your liver,

inflammation on your liver, increases your risk of getting cirrhosis, which is scar tissue on

your liver. And it increases estrogen in the body. So the more estrogen, the less testosterone you're going to

have. And so this natural herb is called Katsu. And Katsu is that plant that you see on the side of the

road that literally covers trees and fences. And so this plant, Katsu, is in the Magum family, and I've been looking at it as an

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